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The killer feature for me was the documentation. I got thrown into an Elixir application that uses Ecto and Phoenix and literally everything I ever had to do wa
by Kaze404 6y ago
The killer feature for me was the documentation. I got thrown into an Elixir application that uses Ecto and Phoenix and literally everything I ever had to do was documented and explained in Hexdocs.
- OkayPhysicist 6y agoSeriously, the Elixir documentation should be considered the gold standard. Almost everything is documented with exactly what kind of situations the library/module/function should be used for, combined with illustrative examples showing how it should be used.
- pepesza 6y agoComing from Erlang to Elixir - I find Elixir docs lacking in both coverage and terseness.
- yawboakye 6y agoI could agree. Coming to Erlang from Elixir, I truly appreciate the simplicity and small size of the Erlang language. Making it possible to write exhaustive documentation. In fact, in Joe's book he defers a lot to the online docs/manual for in-depth treatment of a lot of topics.
- strzibny 6y agoWhile you might be right, I dislike the style of Erlang docs.
- conradfr 6y agoIMHO many function docs could have more examples. Especially for a dynamic language which uses tuples/maps for a lot of arguments.